Tampa Alissa Nutting
In this novel, the main character “unrepentantly recounts
her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old
student.” She particularly wants the most emotionally vulnerable boy she can find,
so he can be easily used and manipulated. All this while she’s married. I could
only survive a few chapters. The prose is good, and some of the characters are well
and humorously described. But, I found the whole thing deeply disturbing, and I
kept thinking what critics, especially feminist critics, would say about a man targeting
for an affair the most vulnerable 14-year-old girl he could find in his class. Would
it even get published? Why is this ok?
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